Andrea Mitchell

Andrea Mitchell is a Washington D.C.-based American TV journalist, anchor, and commentator. Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a diploma from the department of English Literature. Mitchell began her career as a reporter for KYW Radio and TV, Philadelphia in 1967. She was a reporter for the CBS affiliate WDVM-TV (then WTOP) in Washington DC in 1976. In Washington she was named general correspondent for NBC News a year later. Since 1981 she began covering the White House. In 1988 she was named the chief of the congressional reporters. She was named Chief White House correspondent in 1992 as well as chief foreign reporter in 1994 for NBC News in 1994. Mitchell was a guest as a guest on TV news program Meet the Press as a panelist as well as host. Mitchell joined the panel in 1988's presidential debates, which pitted George Bush against Michael Dukakis. Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Mitchell received the Goldsmith Career Award in 2005 by the John F. Kennedy School of Government to recognize her excellence in journalism. In 2004 in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association gave Mitchell the Leonard Zeidenberg Award in recognition for her work in protecting First Amendment Freedoms. Mitchell started covering in the White House in 1981-1988 for NBC News during Ronald Reagan's second term as president. Mitchell covered a broad range of important stories, including the Iran-contra controversy and tax reform. She traveled with Ronald Reagan during numerous trips for world summits and wrote often.